{"id":15526,"date":"2013-07-29T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2013-07-29T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:01:54","slug":"brooklyn-teen-sues-nypd-officer-for-2-false-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=15526","title":{"rendered":"“Brooklyn teen sues NYPD officer for 2 false arrests”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From John Marzulli, in the Daily News: Brooklyn teen sues NYPD officer for 2 false arrests – NY Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a deeply disturbing piece for a whole heap of reasons. These lines underneath the photo of Rayquan Callahan, the plaintiff, summarize it well:<\/p>\n

Rayquan Callahan says a Brooklyn copy busted him for no reason, so he sued. Then the same cop, Daniel Berardi, busted him again \u2014 also for no reason.<\/em><\/p>\n

I read the entire story with my usual guard against emotional jumps. But I can’t see the other guy’s \u2014 the policeman Daniel Berardi’s \u2014 side, so to speak.<\/p>\n

It’s a bad time for the NYPD to have yet another lawsuit against a cop stopping, searching and, in the case, handcuffing and arresting a black kid for nothing.<\/p>\n

By the way, I know Rayquan Callahan’s lawyer, Joel Berger, an excellent long-time civil rights attorney. Joel summarizes the case well when he says, “Never in 45 years of practicing civil rights law have I encountered such a brazen retaliation against a plaintiff by the very officer he has just sued.”<\/p>\n

Although it’s important that the NYPD establish\u00a0\u2014 or be forced to establish\u00a0\u2014 different and restrictive rules for stopping and searching, I think the NYPD’s selection procedures, testing and training of police applicants need to be considerably revised if Daniel Berardi is an example of the people NYPD brings into the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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